THE 8
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No. 26
Nya Svenska Pressen
Vancouver, B.C., Torsdagen den 14 oktober 1943
Vol. VII
Radiogram till The American Swedish News Exchange i N.Y.
Glimpses from Sweden
“Verkligheten manar nordiska folken att samarbeta ”
Stockholm den 20 september. "Verkligheten manar de nordiska folken ätt samarbeta, helst inom ett nytt Nationernas förbund,” yttrade Fredrik Ström i ett tal på Skansen, där omkring ettusen studenter samlats till ett nordiskt skol-möte. Bland gästerna märktes representanter för alla de nordiska länderna, även Island.
Prins Eugen
är nu återställd efter sin svåra operation och har lämnat sjukhuset.
Prinsessan Christina,
prinsparet 'Gustaf A d o If s fjärde dotter, döptes den 18 sept. i Solna kyrka. Konungen var närvarande.
Lyckade radioutsändningar
Stockholm den 20 sep^gmber.-
Tage Palms föredrag i radio från New York på söndagen, vilket var det första i Radiotjänsts serie om Svensk-ameri-ka, hördes utmärkt och har också fått en god press. Det samma gäller om redaktör Gunnar Fagreils föredrag i lördags via B.B.C., det första i en serie om svenskamerikanerna i Worcester.
Alla svenska
dagliga tidningar äro nu förbjudna i Danmark.
Norska officerare föras av tyskarna till fronten i Ryssland
Enligt meddelande från Bukarest till svenska tidningar ha fängslade norska officerare av tyskarna förts till fronten i Ryssland.
Ett svenskt flygpkin
har störtat över Vättern. De ombordvarande, föraren John Mårtensson och mekanikern Arne Glinge, båda från Stockholm, ha inte kunnat påträffas.
Ännu ett lejdfartyg,
(Johnsonlinjens “Chile” på 5,305 bruttoton, har anlänt till Göteborg. Det medför linfrö, jordnötter och hudar från Argentina, sammanlagt 5,600 ton.
TERBOVEN BEFÄSTAR SKAGUM
Enligt meddelande från Norge låter den tyske rikskommis-sarien Terboven nu befästa Skaugum.
Skaugum är beläget omkring 25km. väster om Oslo på sydsidan av Skaugumåsen. Kronprins Olav erhöll år 1929 godset som gåva av minister F. Wedel Jarlsberg. Efter den tyska ockupationen av Norge beslagtog Terboven Skaugum för egen räkning.
Snogeholms slott för danska flyktingar
Socialstyrelsen har hyrt Snogeholms slott i Skåne, vilket nu blir mottagningscentrum för danska flyktingar.
Snogeholm har ägts av at-tema Brahe, Bille, Marsvin m. fl. på 1600- och 1700- talen. Under senare år har'det pa slottet drivits pensionatrörelse.
En av Danmarks
mest bekanta officerare, flygaren och bombexperten kapten Einar Lund, har flytt till Sverige.
UTSPISNING AV TUSENTALS NORSKA BARN ANORDNAD
77,000 norska barn få nu skolfrukost genom den svenska Norgehjälpen, som startade för ungefär ett år sedan. Dessutom erhålla 1,500 barn ' i Oslo alla sina mål på denna väg. Dessa upplysningar lämnas av sekreteraren i den svenska Norgehjälpen, Nils Goude, som också framhåller att det svenska sjukhuset i Oslo, som är avsett endast för civila, kommer att öppnas i oktober.
Svenskarna ha hittills skänkt 13 miljoner kronor till Norgehjälpen, medan Landsorganisationen och Arbetsgivareföreningen tillsammans betala omkostnaderna för denna rörelse. Det råder nu en fruktansvärd brist på livsmedel och kläder i Norge, och vintern kommer att bli svår. Det behövs därför en större insats från svensk sida.
600 lokala hjälpkommitteer ha nu bildats i Sverige. Det kontrolleras mycket noga att den hjälp som lämnas från Sverige verkligen kommer norrmännen själva till godo, framhåller hr Goude till slut.
Den första snön
härden 22 sept. fallit i Nor-land. Många orter ha haft frost.
The Swedish Riksdag
is expected to hold a special session this fall, commencing about mid-October and lasting for six weeks.
The larger part
of the Swedish Legation in Berlin has been moved to a mansion outside that city.
AT QUEBEC, WHERE PLANS FOR VICTORY WERE*LAID
A press conferencé on the terrace of Quebec’s Citadel.
CHURCHILL’S WAR REPORT PRAISED IN SWEDEN
Swedish newspapers have published extensive accounts of the war report made to the House of the Commons by p r i m e M in is t e r Winston Churchill of England. Some of the editorial comment follows:-
“His picture of the war situation is the brightest he has ever painted during these stormy years,’ says Stockholms
Fabrikshemvärn på vakt i slottet
Hemvärnet är populärt i Sverige, vid två tillfällen har det svarat för högvakten på Kungliga slottet. Bilden visar en avdelning ur L. M. Ericsons fabrikshemvärn.
Oktober 1942 — Oktober 1943
Det stora ökenäventyret.
av vår London-korrespondent, Alvar Anderson.
Den 2 juli 1942 kungjorde Tyska Högkvaret, att “d e slagna britterna förföljdes in i Nildalen”.
Den 3 oktober fastslog fältmarskalk Rommel i Berlin:
“Vi håller inkörsvägen till Egypten med avsikt att handla. Vi har inte gått dit med någon avsikt att bli drivna tillbaka . Ni kan lita på att vi håller vad vi har tagit.”
Den 23 januari 1942 klockan fem på morgonen intågade brittiska Åttonde armén i Tri-polis, den berömda huvudstaden i den sista återstående delen av det Italienska Imperiet.
Tidningen, adding:— “He spoke like a statesman surveying a long and difficult road towards the goal, but with the moments of anxiety left behind. He felt a definite assurance regarding the outcome of the var, but he had nothing to say about peace. “The editorial also re-fers to Mr. Churchill s ' definite promise of a second front.
Social-Demokraten, another Stockholm newspaper. says edi-torially:- “Although the report
1,500 kilometer väster om E-gyptens gräns.
Bakom den låg Egypten och Libyen och en stor del av Tri-politania, rensade från varenda Rommelsoldat. Bakom den låg ett fältslag, som i framtidens historieböcker kommer att näm nas på samma nivå som Scipi-os och Hannibals möten i gamla tidei- på samma nordafrikanska mark.
Slaget förbereddes och vanns på ett sätt, som ger full rättvisa åt en brittisk regeringsmedlems uttalande, detta krig är ett folkets krig. Det var sant och allom uppenbart beträffande det stora defensiva “Slaget om Storbritannien’’. I sla-
Forts. på sidan 4.
was filled with hope there were intimations of “blood, sweat and tears”. Mr. Churchill predicted new and heavy sacrifices, which shows his confideince in the people and their moral strength. Even in the most desperate situations the dictators try to cover up, but democratic states-men can tell the plain, unvarn-ished truth. The report has ; surely strengthened the will of the British to fight, and to continue the bitter struggle to a victorius end. ”
SECRETARY HULL’S ADDRESS “ENCOURAGING”
Stockholm, (By wireless)
“The remarks of Secretary of State Cordell Hull in his radio address from Washington last week with reference to all nations having equal jrights, were clear and encouraging words for all the small countries that have been worrying about their future,” says a n editorial in the Stockholms-Tidningen It adds:— “Spöken shortly before an expected closer con-tact between the Anglo-Saxon nations and the Soviet Union, Secretary Hull’s words tend to dispel the uneasiness, suspi-cions, doubt and irritation a-mong the nations whose co-operation is needed in the world’s rebuilding. ’’
SAFE CONDUCT SHIPS ARRIVE IN PORT
Five safe conduct ships, three of them carrying a total of 45.000 tons of oil for Sweden’s defense forces, reached Goth-enburg today from overseas. A sixth ship, the “Vasaland.’’ made port on September 23 with 4.000 tons of fodder-cake from the Argentine. The ships arriving today were the “P e r u,” with 5,500 tons of Argentine peanuts, cotton-oil and linseed; the 'Tunaholm*, with 3,000 tons of Portuguese palmseed, and the motor-tankers “Julius,” “Sveadrott,” and “Falsterbohus. ”
STUDENTS OF UPPSALA HOLD “NORWAY EVENING”
Stockholm, (By wireless)
Students of Uppsala Univer-sity opened their fall series of medtings with a “Norway Eve-ning.’’ They were addressd by östen Uhdén, Chancellor of the Swedish Uniiversisties, a n *d member of the First Chamber of the Swedish Riksdag, and by Professor Hans Ahlmann.of Stockholm University, geologist and explorer. Professor Undén said iri part:- “Despite
the seriousness of the times there are some reasons for re-joicing. In Italy the tyrant has been dethroned, and the Ita-)ian universities have regained their voice. It is apparent to the world that the grim front of the Black-shirts was never an expression’ of the real will of the Italians. ” Professor Ahl-mann, mentioning that Swe-deh is now the only Scandi-navian country able to extend aid to Norway, warned against lurking feelings of isolationism.
Berlin Press Angered Stockholm, (By wireless)
Jt is reported from Berlin to Swedish newspapers today that several G e rman newspapers have criticized ' the meeting, and have been especially out-spoken with regard to Professor Unddn’s speech. “The po-litical tendencies shown at the meeting are incompatible with strict neutrality, ” the Völkis-cher Beobachter is reported to have said in a editorial.
MME. KOLLONTAY NAMED AMBASSADÖR
Mm. Alexandra Kollontay, Soviet Minister to Sweden, has been promoted to the rank of Ambassadör. The elevation of Mme. Kollontay is an honorary one in recognition of her past [services. In a brief statement । to the press the new Ambassa-I dor said that she did not plan : to leave Stockholm, nor would the Legation here be raised to an Embassy. (Mm. Kollontay, ■ now 71 years old, has been Soviet Minister to Sweden since iOctober 1930.)
SWEDISH LABOR MEN VISIT LONDON
Stockholm, (By wireless)
Interviewed in London where they are attending an interna-tional Conference on post-war problems, held under the aus-pices of the British Trade Union Federation and the British Labor Party, three representatives of Swedish Labor are quoted in today’s issue of the Stockholm newspaper DAGE«NS NYHETER as saying that “the brightest pos-sibilities now exist for post-war Scandinavian co-operation. ” The three men, Gunnar Anderson, first vicepresident of the Swedish Labor Federation, Walter Åman. secretary of the Labor Federaton, and Torsten Nilsson, Secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic (Labor) Party, told Dagens Ny-heters London correspondent that they were impressed by the seriousness with which the British discussed post-war prob-'ems. The interview was given after they had been received by Crown Prince Olav of Norway, and by Johan Nygaardsvold', Premier of the Royal Norwe-gian Government, on Sept. 25. The same day they also talked with Christmas Moeller, Con-servative leader and former member of the Danish Cabinet, now in Ixmdon.
BOOK ON GERMANY ATTRACTS ATTENTION
The first edition of 6.000 co-pies of ‘Behind the Steel Wall,’ by Arvid Fredborg, former Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, was completely sold out yesterday, the day of publica-tion. A study of the develop-ments in Germany from early in 1941 to June, 1943, the book has been given prominent re-views in Swedish and British newspapers and, it is reported, will be published in install-ments by the London Daily Express .
Fredborg says that Sweden is extremely unpopular among the Nazi leaders, and that there were many signs that the Nazis intended to act a-gainst Sweden in Februarv, 1942. Only Sweden’s speedy mobilization at that time saved the country from invasion.
RECEPTION CENTER FOR DANISH REFUGEES
Snogeholm Castle, located in the Provinoe of Skåne, in Southwest Sweden, has been rented by the Swedish Social Welfare Board, for use as a reception center for Danish re-fugöes. (Many hundreds of Danes have fled to Sweden since the latest outbreak of. terror methods by the German occupants of Denmark on Aug-gust 28.)
ERNST TRYGGER DIES IN SWEDEN
Stockholm, (By wireless)
Ernst Trygger, former Swedish Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, died here today at the age of 86. As a Leader of the Conservative Party for many years, as Premier and Foreign Minister, and as Chancellor for the Swedish universities, E. Trygger played an important part in political and culfural developments in Sweden. He was a member of the Upper Chamber of the Riksdag for fortv years, retiring at the age of 80. From 1920 to 1922 and again in 1929 he was Sweden’s delegate to the League of Nations and also took part in International eco-nomic conferences.